Police Verify That The YouTube HQ Shooter’s Motive Was A Grudge In opposition to The Web site

The motive of the feminine attacker who opened fireplace at YouTube headquarters on Tuesday, capturing three individuals earlier than killing herself, has been the topic of a lot hypothesis. Nasim Aghdam apparently didn’t particularly goal any particular YouTube worker, however reasonably, her household revealed that she was very indignant on the firm. She had written a manifesto and posted on social media about how she felt discriminated towards after the platform demonetized her movies. Police resisted assigning a motive till additional investigation, however have now decided that Aghdam’s YouTube grudge motivated her capturing spree.

CNN experiences phrase from San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini, who confirms, “We all know she was upset with YouTube, and now we’ve decided that was the motive.” Barberini additionally revealed that Aghdam went to a capturing vary and practiced along with her Smith & Wesson handgun mere hours earlier than getting into YouTube’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Additional, Mountain View police have acknowledged that once they found her sleeping in a automotive in a car parking zone, they didn’t discover something alarming about her conduct:

“We contacted the girl contained in the car, who was asleep, to verify on her and to find out if she was the identical one who had been reported lacking. At no level throughout our roughly 20 minute interplay along with her did she point out something about YouTube, if she was upset with them, or that she had deliberate to hurt herself or others … she was calm and cooperative.”

There’s been no additional followup on earlier experiences that Aghdam’s household warned police that “she would possibly do one thing” towards YouTube. Nonetheless, the New York Occasions has a deeper have a look at Aghdam’s YouTube notoriety, particularly in Iran, the place she was thought of a viral star, and the Occasions rounds up some feedback from viewers who discovered her movies amusing and are shocked over Aghdam’s assault.